Oerwinde

The only beer I drink is Mort Subite Frambois, which is like $4 a bottle, so I can't afford beer, and Strongbow is like $14 for a 6 pack, so that ain't happening either. Meat prices have gone up like 70% while wages have gone up 10%, so I'm going to be forced into vegetarianism by economics. On the other hand, I have way too many games to play, and there is an overabundance of great TV thanks to Netflix and HBO pushing the boundaries of scripted Drama, and reality TV being a non-entity for streaming services making networks move towards scripted shows in order to take advantage of streaming revenues. So its an escapist's wonderland nowadays.

Immigration is our largest source of population growth. I believe last year we had something like 300,000 new immigrants or some such. There has been a pretty big scandal recently due to the Temporary Foreign Worker program, which was designed so that companies, if there was a lack of labour in an area, could import workers until there were enough Canadian workers. It was also a foot in the door for some of the temporary workers as well. Problem was the biggest users of the program were fast food restaurants. And major corporations were laying off their entire Canadian staff and bringing in temporary foreign workers who did the job for half the price.

Those that will not win. There of course those who claim that they oppose it, but will eventually cave in when entering office. Boy, do i hope that i am wrong about this. Oerwinde: cliff notes about the major parties and what they wish to accomplish? Full disclosure, I'm a left leaning centrist, that tends to vote Liberal or NDP, depending on the platform of the parties, and how capable the leaders seem. This may paint my portrayal of the parties. Conservative Party: Current government. Anti-science, authoritarian, pro-corporate. During their years in power they have reduced corporate taxes to the lowest in the western world, pulled out of any international climate agreements, spent more on advertising than any other government in the history of canada, tabled omnibus bills of up to 800 pages then limited debate on them in order to force them through, was found in contempt of parliament when they wouldn't release spending data to the commons, the first government to ever be found so. Was connected to widespread electoral fraud in the last election. I would need to find a supporter to actually name anything good they have done. Basically they want to lower taxes and sign on to any and all free trade agreements they can, no matter the consequences. Supports TPP. Lead by Stephen Harper. http://www.conservative.ca/ Liberal Party: The party that governed canada for pretty much the century previous to the Conservatives taking power. Was understandibly corrupt due to the sense that they were the natural rulers of Canada. Despite the corruption they actually did a pretty damned good job of running the country, losing power with a balanced budget, 13 billion dollar surplus, and a ton of accomplishments pretty much a hair away from implementation when their minority government was taken down in a no confidence vote. Were reduced to the lowest seat count in their history in the last election. They are in reality a centrist party despite the name. They support legalization of marijuana, free trade, etc. A mix of left and right policies. Have taken a blow to their support after coming out in support of C-51, a Conservative bill that increases the spying powers of government agencies, and allows for "preventative detention" and the arrest of people speaking out against the sitting government. Lead by Justin Trudeau, son of the late Pierre Trudeau, who was named in pretty much every poll ever done as the best Prime Minister in Canadian history. Supports TPP https://www.liberal.ca/ NDP(New Democratic Party): Social Democratic party, though have moved slightly away from the far left since Mulcair took power after the death of previous leader Jack Layton. In the last election following the leadership debate Michael Ignatieff of the Liberals basically collapsed, while Jack Layton kicked all sorts of arse giving the NDP a huge boost. Quebec voters abandoned the Quebec nationalist party the Bloc Quebecois in favor of the NDP, which gave them the biggest seat total they had ever had, becoming the official opposition. They support a federal minimum wage of $15, a national childcare program, increased taxes on the wealthy, and measures to increase refining and manufacturing in canada rather than exporting all our natural resources. Lead by Thomas Mulcair. Have not come out in support or opposition to TPP, but supports more transparency in negotiations and opposes Investor/State Dispute Resolution clauses that allows corporations to sue the governments of signatories if the state's laws hurt the corporations profits. These clauses are in every Conservative free trade agreement, and has caused Canada hundreds of millions in damages. http://www.ndp.ca/ Green: Currently only 2 seats in the commons, 1 of which was a defection. Lead by Elizabeth May, pretty much the hardest working parliamentarian, if a little bit whacko. The greens got their first seat in the last election by only running one candidate, May herself, in the one riding in Canada considered to be the easiest for her to win, and devoting all of the party resources to getting her elected. It worked, and got the greens a lot more exposure, and until recently, May had shown herself to be an extremely capable MP who works her arse off for her party and her constituents. Lately she's had to make a lot of apologies for going off the rails on twitter, interviews, or speeches. Greens are pretty standard pro-environment party, but other than supporting heavy environmental restrictions and subsidies of green industry, are pretty centrist in their policies. Opposes TPP. http://www.greenparty.ca/en Bloc Quebecois: Quebec nationalist party. During years of separatist support they are the nationalist party, during years without separatist support they are the Quebec First party. In their policies they are essentially the NDP, except Quebec only and with the eventual goal of Quebec sovereignty. Were annihilated inthe last election with the mass migration to the NDP, and are currently the 4th place party in Quebec according to recent polls. http://www.blocquebecois.org/ (in french) Thats my biased primer. If there are any Conservative supporters on the board they might be able to give a better view of what the Conservatives have actually accomplished, but there have been a lot of articles in news lately that talk about how Stephen Harper may go down as the worst Prime Minister in Canadian history due to his lousy economic record, disdain for science and evidence based policy, his anti-democratic methods, and authoritarianism. edit: added official party websites

So there was a UK and US one, with everything starting to ramp up for the election here, figured it might be time to add this one to the mix. So far the major developments seem to be the Conservatives rejecting doing televised debates on the major networks, and the NDP taking first place in opinion polls for the first time pretty much ever (although with margin of error its a statistical tie) I think a lot of the NDP support comes from them pushing the national child-care program, which can be up to 1/3rd of a family's income (we pay $900/month for part time care 3 days a week and thats a deal). Also, Trudeau's support for c-51 likely sunk his support amongst actual liberals, because no one in their right mind supports a law that allows imprisonment for people who speak out against the government.

Is also a bad place for proper flaming too, just ends in boring sarcasm. But it is a very handy platform for figuring out why a road is closed, what left all that blood or what that smoke in the distance is, in my experience. I use it to find out why my train is 10 min late.

I had actually been wondering what happened to Roam, as they were pretty good for regular updates until the last few months. There has to be more to that lawsuit though, as the way they tell it it sounds pretty cut and dry

If he had been in War Zone instead of the cheesy revenge flick he was in it would have blown minds. I liked him as Frank better, but his movie wasn't as good.

War Zone is easily the best Punisher movie. Its exactly what a Punisher movie should be.

can I pre-emptively call dibs on Sengoku if anyone grabbed the Paradox bundle and is giving it away?

Pretty sure revenge is taking retribution for something done to yourself, and avenge is taking retribution for something done to someone else.

Didn't the founding fathers intend for there to be constitutional conventions to review and ammend the constitution every 10 years or so to ensure it represented the will of the people and some such? It wasn't until the last 50 years or so that it became some sort of holy scripture.

He was a good Ender, and what I've seen of him in interviews he seems like a british Pete. They are trying to go teenage and actually have him look teenage. I'm ok with it.

That was the only Alien game I had ever looked forward to.

Text can't describe my grin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MubNoWQiSc

I think we need a separation between editorials and reviews(subjective) and news(objective), with different standards for both. Obviously disclosure should occur, and there should be some standards implemented to maintain professional distance. This. When I go to a news website, the news is usually accompanied by a relevant picture, while editorial is accompanied by a picture of the author. Games websites usually have game pics for both.

They don't have the Misfits or the sci-fi elements, which is 2/3rds of Jem. What's the point?

Brooklyn 99 had me rewinding a couple times due to great lines from Capt. Holt. Andre Braugher's delivery on "Call me Velvet. Thunder!" can't be beat.

Seems a bit strange that GG would have any women as a mascot considering how the movement feels about women and treats them ? I don't understand the question. Why would GG have a woman as a mascot considering its celebration of women in gaming and its support of charities that support female game devs?

Yeah, I dont understand how they managed to suck out all the magic just by switching to yahoo. It is weird. Same thing happened to futurama on Comedy Central. The extra freedom translated to a less refined product.

Preview for this week had them burning the body. So far this season has had very little direction, and no build up for the end. My guess is they just felt like they needed to kill someone to build tension as it gets into the last few episodes.

Was Citizen Kane one of them? No, I want to see it eventually though. Mark of Zorro was probably the one I enjoyed most besides Casablanca though

Enjoyed the finale of Once Upon a Time, especially the ending.

Before I saw Casablanca I had seen maybe 3 other black and white movies, all of which were terrible and it made me avoid them. Casablanca was so good it made me start actively seeking out some.

The Karl Urban one, right? That was the only Dredd movie ever made. Although the Stallone one had points for Max Von Sydow as a Judge exiled to the Wasteland. It had a lot of good stuff in it, except the Stallone bits which were self evidently in the majority. Really if they had cast someone willing to keep the helmet on, and ditched Rob schneider's character it would have been a good movie.

As much as its cool to hate on Chris Tucker, I don't think a Rush Hour series will be the same without him.